in reply to using proxy servers with lwp::simple or useragent

I got it to change with a simple 
$ua->proxy('http', "http://$ip:$port");

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as demonstrated in Verify web proxy servers at www.publicproxyservers.com.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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